The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

The pathway for kindergarten math displayed on the cover of one binder, for example, begins on a lower left square featuring a giant “20” and the statement, “I can count to 20.” Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. Credit: Daniel Joseph.

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The Daring Librarian

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The FY 2011 budget absorbs this grant program, along with a variety of others, into Effective Teaching and Learning for a Complete Education. ALA: Arne Duncan Talks about the Role of Libraries in Economic Recovery labels: action, Advocacy, ALA, Carolyn Foote, Joyce Valenza, school libraries.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2019

Although 12 percent of public school students attended a high-poverty school in 2000, this figure rose to 20 percent by 2011. In 2011, 37 percent of students in city schools went to high-poverty schools , as opposed to 10 percent in rural schools, 14 percent in suburban schools, and 15 percent in town schools.

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SpeechTechie

MAY 2, 2014

Jessica Gosnell (Children’s Hospital, Boston), “Apps, an Emerging Tool for SLPs,” ASHA Leader Online, October, 2011 I think as we progress in incorporating technology into our work thoughtfully, we are getting better at seeing these connections and potential uses of a wider variety of apps.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

It’s that fewer than one in five of adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee. Enrollment in Tennessee has actually declined among adults aged 25 to 64 since 2011.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide. When schools reopen, they might do so with a different schedule: four days a week of in-person education and one virtual day, for example. Notably, climate change could reduce snowfall in the state but worsen flooding.).

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

percentage points since 2011, the federal data show. And at private for-profit colleges and universities, more than 44 percent of students leave before finishing, a figure that is eight-tenths of a percentage points worse than it was in 2011. At private nonprofit colleges, it’s eked up by just 1.3 percentage points.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Examples of Value-Added Services in the Context of Open. A few examples include: Automattic provides a broad range of for-fee, value-added services around the open source WordPress software, including WordPress.com (hosting), WordPress.com VIP (hosting), Akismet (anti-spam), Jetpack (security), and many others. were graduate students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

Starting in 2011, several key groups and people in Maine worked to put the state ahead of the pack in terms of legal requirements for proficiency. Former state education commissioner Stephen Bowen was a cheerleader for the idea during his tenure at the Maine Department of Education from 2011 to 2013.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 6, 2011

This is our official call for presentations for the Library 2.011 conference, November 2 - 3, 2011. The conference will be held online, in multiple time zones over the course of two days, and will be free to attend. We encourage all to participate, and ask that you share this information where appropriate.

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MindShift

JANUARY 30, 2019

It’s that fewer than one in five adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee. Enrollment in Tennessee has actually declined among adults aged 25 to 64 since 2011.

Industry 28

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Monica Grice started college in 2011 and will graduate from Texas State University in May. Colleges and universities usually require 120 credits for a bachelor’s degree but students graduate with about 135, on average, according to data compiled by Complete College America, a nonprofit research and advocacy group.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Another notable area of growth: the size of the report itself, which has expanded from 66 slides in 2011 to 355 this year , with the number of slides almost doubling in the last year alone. There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” Manufacturing Trends. It finds no impact in math.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Most charter operators did not come close to hitting their targets, predicting, for example, that they could move students from 50 percent proficiency to 80 or even 100 percent in four or five years. The No Child Left Behind targets, set in 2001, became more flexible in 2011, after U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

A 2011 federal study found that although the employment rate within 6 years of leaving high school for special education students (71.1 If a student likes football, for example, educators may note that he wants to join the NFL. Some are unemployed, or, as Pennsylvania mother Chris Bradley described it, “graduating to the couch.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

To build public support for the changes, the foundation also gave smaller grants to youth and immigrant advocacy groups in the districts. In its application for its 2011 grant, Portland pledged to move the entire district to a proficiency-based diploma.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

She recalls that when she got the job in 2011 as director of early childhood programs for the Butler County Educational Service Center, which encompasses Butler and Preble counties, “It was usually a couple of classrooms that we’d be like, ‘Whoa, this is really chaotic.’

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2023

For example, NCES reported that in 2021, Asian students earned 13.6 Number and percentage distribution of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) degrees/certificates conferred by postsecondary institutions, by race/ ethnicity, level of degree/certificate, and sex of student: Academic years 2011-12 through 2020-21. [ii]

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2023

I interviewed five women — all Central American immigrants — in Spanish, and with support from Early Edge California , a statewide policy and advocacy organization I interned for, I paid each participant a stipend for their time. In 2011, Martinez heard of a free breakfast being hosted at a local church. “I It was like he was my baby.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

Federal data show that of the 201 low-income freshmen who began at the college in 2011, none had graduated six years later. Nor had any freshmen who got Pell Grants in 2011 to attend 48 other colleges and universities, including taxpayer-subsidized public institutions. Photo: Jon Marcus for The Hechinger Report. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. —

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Baum & Company, the same financial firm that underwrote the Fox C-6 bonds, was sanctioned by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority for overcharging a school district in 2011. This year, for example, the Fox C-6 School District asked voters to approve a $70 million bond to upgrade aging school buildings.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

It’s a stark example of how children who haven’t even learned to brush their own teeth may already suffer due to the color of their skin or the language that they speak. * * *. The nonprofit offers workshops, one-to-one advocacy, and a monthly Spanish-speaking support group for families. years , respectively.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

In Indianapolis Public Schools, for example, the Center for Inquiry School 84 has a lower portion of kids getting free or reduced-price lunch than any other school in the district, at just 8 percent. Certain special education programs can drive up costs, for example. Related: A decade of research on the rich-poor divide in education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

percentage points since 2011. percent from 67 percent in 2011, that’s still almost four full percentage points lower than where white students were four years ago. Department of Education, released today, 83.2 percent of students in the class of 2015 graduated, compared with 82.3 percent in the prior academic year. That’s a gain of 4.2

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

“It’s disheartening to families, and it fosters the ‘check mentality,’ ” said Carrie Guiden, executive director of The Arc of Tennessee, a nonprofit disability advocacy group, referring to government checks. They say, for example, that the number of residential clients at a training center in Smyrna dropped to about 50 from 150.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

While the idea has hardly caught fire nationally, a handful of communities have already created mechanisms for redistributing parent donations between schools: Arlington, Virginia; Evanston, Illinois; Oakland, California; and Portland, Oregon are all examples. Card used the example of alumni donations to colleges to make his point. “I

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2016

Half a million, or about one in four, show up on campuses each fall not ready to take college courses in math or English, according to the advocacy organization Education Reform Now. That’s a feat a surprising number of high school graduates fail to accomplish.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

As an example, she pointed to the Accelerated Learning Program, or ALP, which she spearheaded in her role as a senior VA advisor under the Obama administration. An advocacy group called Veterans Education Success (VES) has collected 113 more from veterans and service members, many of which echo Baca’s criticisms about quality and cost. “I

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

President Obama allowed the program to expire in 2009, but it was reauthorized for five years in 2011. Department of Education (ED) staff, Congressional leaders, state school chiefs, and leaders of major trade associations, think tanks, and advocacy groups.). It allows about 1,200 eligible students in Washington D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Ashley Harrington, federal advocacy director, Center for Responsible Lending. The high default rates and low repayment rates — they factor that in as the cost of doing business, and the students are the ones who lose out,” said Ashley Harrington, federal advocacy director for the Center for Responsible Lending. Hidden Debt Trap.

Advocacy 120

Advocacy Company Report Policies 120

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

“The average amount of tuition is going to be more than the actual voucher, not to mention transportation and uniform costs,” said Nik Nartowicz, state policy counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a legal advocacy group. ESAs gained prominence with Arizona’s passage of the nation’s first such program in 2011.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In 2011, following the death of 20-year-old Raheim Brown at the hands of school police officers, Black community organizers in Oakland pledged to eliminate the school district’s police department. New York City, for example, which enrolls more than a million students, appears to have zero school-based arrests, which can’t be true, Losen said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

Families who earn more than poverty-level wages but still live on a subsistence budget account for about 33 million American households, according to Laura Bruno, a spokesperson for United for ALICE , a research and advocacy organization focused on America’s working poor. Those standards are still fairly weak.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2011, Ning was acquired by “lifestyle” site Glam Media for around $150 million. Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

I think it’s safe to say, for example, that venture capital investment has fallen off rather precipitously this year. Some of these areas that are popular for investment do coincide with the popular narratives about “the future of education” – “everyone should learn to code,” for example.

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2016

There were no representatives of students or advocacy groups, a coalition of these groups complained.). . For example, universities are required like other businesses to properly dispose of hazardous waste, Gross said. “Do Do you count the whole cost of hazardous waste disposal as a regulatory cost?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

So what happens when, for example, we share the research that demonstrates that vouchers do not improve student achievement ? That is, accepting science is not necessarily a function of education or scientific knowledge – parents who are anti-vaccine are often affluent and highly-educated, for example. Should you ban laptops ?

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Technology Education Facebook Social Media 71